Aside from the battle against Apple and the whole legal hoopla on tinkering with your personally owned iPhone, independent homebrew developers are at war against each other, so to speak, on coming up with a program that will ultimately unlock the gadget.

iPhoneSIMFree came up with it first but the thing with these devs is that they want the application to be purchased wholesale, meaning end-users will not benefit much from it. We recently learned that a group of another coders collectively known as iPhone Dev Team released the program iUnlock, which is ready for download anytime.

We have to remind you that installing iUnlock is not as easy as using iPhoneSIMFree. But if you really want to make your iPhone open source, a little courage and technical know-how should do the trick for you. There are a couple of files needed and procedures to be followed to avoid any problems whatsoever.

To avoid these so-called problems, here are the steps directly from the developers themselves. No one will be held liable except yourself if you brick your iPhones. All files mentioned in the procedures can be downloaded at DL.QJ.NET with the link provided below.

• First of all I'm gonna warn you make sure your running version 1.02 firmware. (Settings - General - About - Version. Modem Firmware should also say 03.14.08_G)
• Your phone will also need to be jail-broken you can use iBrickr for this. When you have iBrickr running install the following.
• Community Sources
• OpenSSH
• BSD Subsystem (might take some minutes)
• Next Use WinSCP (root/dottie) and copy the the following files to /usr/bin
• iUnlock
• ICE03.14.08_G.fls
• nor
• minicom
• bbupdater
• You can find your iPhones IP address by using the WiFi settings and picking your network and hitting the blue arrow will reveal your IP.
• Now make a folder under /usr/ called local/etc
• So you upload minirc.dfl to /usr/local/etc
• Now using putty log back in with your login root/dottie and run the following commands:
• cd /usr/bin/
• chmod +x iUnlock
• launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.CommCenter.plist
• iUnlock ICE03.14.08_G.fls nor
• Wait a while usually around 20minutes.
• After this is complete in putty run bbupdater -v
• You should see issuing +xgendata. And a lot more stuff this is good!
• Now still in putty type minicom
• When everything loads OK, type AT it should respond with OK
• If all is good issue these commands next
• AT+CLCK="PN",0,"00000000"
• AT+CLCK="PN",2
• If it gives a response with 0 your unlocked!
• Now just run this command in putty!
• launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.CommCenter.plist
• And you're unlocked!